Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
By: Patrick Marnham
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This biography - the first in over 40 years - of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and rev…
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1. The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
By: Sebastian Smee
3.93
Format: 416 pages, ebook
Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artis… read more
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2. Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
4.40
Format: 152 pages, Hardcover
“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live wi… read more
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"Soft or hard, love was an act of heroism."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
"You are growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make other people comfortable."-Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
3. Priestdaddy: A Memoir
By: Patricia Lockwood
3.50
Format: 24 pages,
The childhood of Patricia Lockwood, the poet dubbed "The Smutty-Metaphor Queen of Lawrence, Kansas"… read more
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4. By Night in Chile
By: Roberto Bolaño , Chris Andrews
3.89
Format: 118 pages, Paperback
During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a m… read more
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"…and for goodness’ sake read widely and deeply…"-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"I am dying now, but I still have many things to say."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"His falcon, called Othello, had struck terror into the heart of every pigeon in Turin..."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
"As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour except the struggle to survive."-Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile
5. Here I Am
By: Jonathan Safran Foer
3.67
Format: 117 pages, Paperback
A monumental new novel from the bestselling author of Everything Is Illuminated and Extremely Loud … read more
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6. King: A Life
By: Jonathan Eig
4.67
Format: 688 pages, Hardcover
The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk a… read more
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7. The Fraud
By: Zadie Smith
3.30
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The extraordinary first historical novel from bestselling author of White Teeth Zadie Smith It i… read more
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"Eliza had long understood her cousin to be beyond the reach of editorial intervention."-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"What possesses people? Unhappiness, always. Happiness is otherwise occupied. It has an object on which to focus. It has daisies, it has snowdrifts. Unhappiness opens up the void, which then requires …"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"I know this country well. Well enough to understand that justice takes time, and that the freedoms of a minority are rarely self-evident to the majority. What is perfectly selfevident to God is – unf…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
"God preserve me from novel-writing, thought Mrs Touchet. God preserve me from that tragic indulgence, that useless vanity, that blindness! In a cold dormitory, two hundred miles away, three heartbrok…"-Zadie Smith, The Fraud
8. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
By: Ed Yong
4.47
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive th… read more
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"It's ironic that we associate taste with connoisseurship, subtlety, and fine discrimination when it is among the coarsest of senses."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"We are closer than ever to understanding what it is like to be another animal, but we have made it harder than ever for other animals to be."-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal can only tap into a small fraction of realities fullness. Each is enclos…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
"A striking pattern emerged on days with the most intense solar storms, grey whales were 4 times more likely to beach themselves. This correlation doesn't prove that whales have a compass but it stron…"-Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
9. The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym
By: Paula Byrne
4.05
Format: 686 pages, Hardcover
A brilliant, intimate biography of English writer Barbara Pym. She was Pym to friends. Miss Pym … read more
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10. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
11. Janis: Her Life and Music
By: Holly George-Warren
4.12
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of… read more
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12. Dreaming with His Eyes Open: A Life of Diego Rivera
By: Patrick Marnham
3.80
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
This biography - the first in over 40 years - of Diego Rivera, the brilliant Mexican artist and rev… read more
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